Abstract

Barcelona. IIIA grew out of an AI research group at the Cen-ter for Advanced Studies in Blanes (Spain) that started AI research in 1985. On average IIIA has had about 50 members per year during the last 12 years with a peak of almost 80 members in 2012. In total around 200 different people, including visiting researchers as well as master’s and Ph.D. students, have been members of IIIA over the past 20 years. Seventy-seven stu-dents have completed their Ph.D. work at our Institute, 48 of them during the last 12 years. The well over 1000 papers published by IIIA members over n IIIA is a public research center, belonging to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), dedicated to AI research. We focus our activities on a few well-defined subdomains of artificial intelligence, positively avoiding dispersion and keeping a good balance between basic research and applications, and paying particular attention to training Ph.D. students and technology transfer. In this arti-cle, I survey some of the most relevant results we have obtained during the last 12 years.